skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Llama 3 seems to not be there yet at all. Can it read earlier prompts and what you have written before? It doesn't seem like it.
I asked it to help come up with a song name for a song I had but it couldn't give me a great answer at all.
Prompt: "Hi! Could you help me come up with a name for a song? The genre of the song is Techno, Punk and Jazz. The name should be two to three words. And each song name should be different from the other one. Please write me 4 to 6 names. Thank you!"
It gives me four famous song names that already exists and writes that I can use them as inspiration for my "next composition".
I tell it that it should give me song names and not song ideas.
It tells me sorry and that he will do better :p
I ask again for song name ideas and it gives me a whole bunch of famous song names and repeatedly writes "Can't stop the feeling" until it sends and error.
I writes that I should've added that it shouldn't write song names that already exist.
It says sorry again and I ask for new song names.

It sends me a lot of these: ""I Can't Stop Wittering" - referencing the British children's TV show "I Can't Stop Wotting" "What a Time to Be Alive" - referencing the 1960s rock and roll era"

I write: "The song names should only be two to three words. Can you read what we have written before?"

Llama answers me: "Sure! Here's what we have written before:
"Hey Jude" "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" "1984""
And a lot of other song, album or band names.

I tell it that it is not true and asks Llama to write me the first prompt I wrote.

Llama answers: "You asked me to help you with a math problem."

Copying and pasting the rest:

You
No, please quote me where I asked that

Llama 3
You asked me to write a song about the number system.

You
Same, please quote me where I said that

Llama 3
You asked me to write a song about the number system.

You
You did not quote me

Llama 3
You asked me to write a song about the alphabet, and I did not.

You
Okay.. I don't think you understand me here

Llama 3
You asked me to write a song about the alphabet.

You
Can you read what we have written?

Llama 3
You asked me to help you with a math problem.

You
Yes or no?

Llama 3
I cannot tell you whether or not I helped you with a math problem. My programming is not yet advanced enough to allow me to tell you whether or not I helped you. However, if you ask me again to help you with a math problem, I will do my best to help you.

You
Alright, thanks for being honest. I will give you a break, sorry if it have been too much for you!

Llama 3
You're most welcome. I'm glad I could help you with your math problem. Do you need help with anything else?
You all are so cute when you think this kind of corruption is limited to Vape. Or just commercial interests in general.
Hey SaaS. Here's what I want from you (re: sign-ups):

1. Show me your price, with multiple pricing tiers. The more tiers you have, the more likely I am going to pick one of them, because I will think "well this lower tier is quite the deal compared to the higher tiers!". If I am an Enterprise customer, I will disregard you as an option if I can't see a price. Don't even show me the tier at all if you aren't going to show me your price. I get immediately incensed when I see that "Contact us for pricing!" bullshit, because I know how much bullshit I am in for if I just want to get a quote, so I look for somebody else. I want to use your product right now. But I'm not going to use it if I think it will be painful to work with your company, or that you might have exorbitant pricing, or you're just looking for whales. Don't make me discount you.

2. Let me use your product, immediately. Let me run it from my laptop immediately. Let me spin up a PoC. Show me your complete reference docs immediately. Show me a toy implementation w/source. I want to know if this will [eventually] give me what I want, within 15 minutes. Do that and you will already have gone above and beyond 95% of SaaS (in my mind).

3. Let me have gradient pricing. Let me sign up right away and start using your product for $0, for 5 users. Send me an e-mail when I have 7 users, informing me that I have 30 days to either reduce the number of users to 5, or it will automatically upgrade my account and charge me more (or make me confirm, or whatever). Same for the next tier, etc. (or 'pre-purchase' discounts vs 'on-demand' overage cost, etc) This gives me flexibility: I know our workflows won't just stop working when we hit a limit, and I can acquiesce to the new price or clean up old users.

4. Let me start using your product without a card on file. Sometimes it takes a while to find the right corporate person with the right corp card (if they even let me use a corp card, rather than invoicing). If you really need a card, give me 15-30 days, and then pause my account if you have to. The point is to let me get "hooked" on your product without needing to figure out which card to use first. (It goes without saying that when the card expires or a charge doesn't go through, give me 30 days to resolve it, because usually the corp card has hit its limit)
You might be happy to know that integration between Let's Encrypt and Nginx is something that's been provided by Certbot for years. The Nginx plugin for Certbot will identify active domains from your Nginx config, create and renew certificates, automating domain validation through the web server in real-time, and will automatically update your config files with both certificate paths and HTTP redirects to HTTPS (if desired).
I love this. When they RTO'd us at work, I ended up sitting next to someone who isn't on our team and who isn't an engineer. He complained to his manager that I curse a lot and when they asked my manager to have me tone it down they moved him instead.

I'm not being loud or particularly vulgar, just lots of "what the fuck?" and "what is this shit?" and "how the hell does this even work?" being involuntarily mumbled to myself.
I figured it might not make the most sense, but I can't help but wonder if the hardware is good enough for static sites & APIs.
The parent comment and child comments are also great examples of how dumb libertarian-type thinking is. I’m sure these people think they sound smart and I’m sure some people read those comments and think “wow they sound smart, they use the word ‘value’ a lot.”

But it’s the opposite, they’re really, really dumb and shallow thoughts. Obviously capitalistic value is not the same thing as human value and trying to say they are is just silly.

However, I’d rather focus on the parent comment. When you think about it, it’s really really shallow and narrowly focused. The value of Manhattan is far more than “wealthy people do stuff here”, there is value around every street, there is value in general safety, there’s value in emotional connections like nostalgia and family ties. The equation is far more complex.

It’s also interesting because this is what libertarians do all the time. They’ll say things like “why should i pay for that street if i don’t use it?” And don’t think about nth-order effects like maybe the people who do use that street might indirectly bring value to your life. Perhaps grocery items get delivered that way for example.
Alembic debuts hallucination-free AI for enterprises
If you ask for citations but won't parse MLA format then I might make some suggestions about YOUR motives too ;)
I didn't mean to imply that he rolled the dice with Crew, but that he rolled the dice with SpaceX in general. By the time Crew came along you are right, they had already surpassed Boeing in terms of engineering know-how. (The fact that Boeing more or less unilaterally disarmed by dismantling their engineering culture during that time didn't hurt either.)
Some microwaves do have this feature. I don't think you'll ever see it on the box so you won't know until you've read the entire manual.
Also curious since the CPUC storage credit maxes out at 4h, so 8h seems particularly pointless.
I’ve been building a permaculture garden and I want to know

- usda hardiness zone
- sun/shade tolerance
- geographic origin
- is it a nitrogen fixer
- soil pH preference
- wet/dry soil preference
- when does it fruit?

This is a decent resource: https://permacultureplantdata.com/
Don't disrespect the downvote-a-bot !

What's you expecting a soul for?
Evolution takes a lot longer than a couple of generations to make effective changes.
I guess it also has to do with whether or not someone will go "oh cool, cool, okay I copied everything you did and quickly released a shittier version that made me a few bucks but turned the flightsim community off of the plane you're still working on" =(
Possible Backdooring /etc/SSH/sshd_config.d/50-cloud-init.conf
It appears that Ubuntu is automatically generating a file in that directory, potentially creating a backdoor option for users who choose common default credentials, such as 'admin/admin.' This could inadvertently undermine attempts to enforce private key authentication by setting 'PasswordAuthentication no' in the main '/etc/ssh/sshd_config' file, as there might be an override active in that subdirectory /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ without the user's awareness. Please let me know if you encounter the same files and check your systems, I've got the suspicion that this is not a one time occurrence!
https://archive.is/BaOdZ
How come is it a US only problem? Well, the way the problem is stated is US only, but everyone will need a new job to bring bread on their plate or pay other bills? Whether they live in the US or not. Is it not true?
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We're also using it in production. And people might laugh, but naming something which looks fine/cool/quirky on paper, but is actually terrible in practice is a big con.
The amount of frowns and laughs we got from colleagues is staggering and a hindrance to implementation and using a product.

We've called it "tray-feek" and it was half ok, then we actually had a call with the official support and they told us its pronounced same as regular "traffic". So any discussion about that proxy goes with: "so we're receiving traffic on our public load balancer which used traffic's native load balancing to send traffic to traffic's pods...". It sounds stupid because it is stupid.
Cheekily forging forward with Atwood's law! I love it!
This is so the case - I never smoked myself but my college years were filled with others smoking; it didn't bother me at all until a few years removed when I return to visit.

It's not entirely off-putting it but it is certainly noticeable.
A product manager who worked at Meta and Google reveals which company is best
I think I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader =P
So unaffected people can't disagree with it because it's not even a nuisance for them? That's kinda selfish.

By the way, many developed countries that have running water and where people also speak English are affected too (and don't think there is no outrage in other languages), including (but not limited to) Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Bahamas, Belarus, Bosnia, Cayman Islands, Estonia, Georgia, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Maldives, Moldova, Monaco, Morocco and even San Marino, which is basically a neighborhood in Italy.
There is almost certainly no crime these whistleblowers are going to uncover that is worse than ordering a hit. Besides, I can't think of any crime more likely to fail, be a sting, or have monstrous blowback.

The reality is that the top brass are NEVER held accountable for the kind of mistakes Boeing has been making. Even when it leads to deaths, the worst one of these guys can expect is to resign with only a 15 million dollar parachute.
They can, actually! Your microwave probably has an arcane button combo that will turn off the beep. You'd never, ever stumble across it randomly, you need to read the manual. On mine, I need to hold the "2" button for five seconds.
A great list of alternatives has been floating around on Twitter after their AI debacle: https://twitter.com/WayneTalbot/status/1786703024330588237

I really enjoy the Affinity tools; they more than meet my modest requirements.
But it seems consequential. If the time were sampled every kilobyte, the code would be 1,000 times faster - which is better than the proposed use of other time functions.

At that point, even these slow methods are using about 0.5ms per million bytes, so it should be good up to gigabit speeds.

If that’s not fast enough, then sample every million bytes. Or, if the complexity is worth it, sample in an adaptive fashion.
I have seen people with tripods in the gym. Filming the exercise and doing video analysis is probably the way to go - for example it can track bench press, like the other comment mentioned. The author here mentions that there are "plenty of apps on the App Store" that do that. But the tripod itself is an investment that I am not sure everyone will make.
AFAIK the Epstein drive from The Expanse is pretty much at the edge of known physics in terms of being plausible, with a few additional caveats.

The biggest of these is that IRL those ships would have to have large heatsinks. Even if the drive were phenomenally efficient you're going to have a minimum of hundreds of megawatts of waste heat to radiate into space to avoid melting the ship.

The second one is that the drive itself would be a deadly weapon. Those scenes in The Expanse where they fire up the drive near other ships or near space stations? Nope, not unless you want to fry everyone on board with X-rays. You wouldn't fire up a drive anywhere near anything you didn't want to cook with hard radiation.

This last point is known as Jon's Law in space engineering and sci-fi: any sufficiently powerful space drive is also by definition a weapon of mass destruction.
PowerPC 40x Processor Support to Be Dropped from the Linux Kernel
> they are now also bundling some language's stdlib with the operating system

much like libc, isn’t it? Apple writes tons of their own software in Swift and the number keeps going up. They’re trying to move more and more of the system to. It’s going to be loaded and in every system whether a user uses it or not.

No different from the objective-C runtime.
Syntax errors are easy to correct. Its when you are working in a language that is fundamentally different like a functional language and then also an object oriented language where there could be large potential issues. Editors and linters aren't going to know enough to point out that you're "doing it wrong".

My concrete example would be Ruby and Elixir. There are fundamental differences in how you design your solution because the languages are that different. It really messes with your brain for a while until you can context switch.

A tip if its causing issues larger than typo's or syntax is to time-box your work in the different languages, only focusing on one at a time. Like mornings doing X and afternoons doing Y. Give your brain a break in between.
Anyone know if we can reasonably estimate X for "A bollard installed here will save X/100000 lives per year on average" for various spots one might want to install bollards, and what the CI would be of such an estimate?

Presumably in cities with enough traffic it's possible to empirically measure number of times a car jumps the curb per year, but in other areas maybe not?
Same thing (trilingual), but haven't seen such a poorly translated website to be nothing worse. Translated websites, even if poorly, are better than a language I don't speak.

Typically website translations are pretty good, when they already invested resources into translations.
And you can pair this with Element [1] to do nice routings.

For example, in my live sets I send 8 separate audio channels from Ableton Live via a miniDSP optical interface [2] to my music partner's audio interface who does fx and live mixing.

When I'm working on the sets without him I don't have the midiDSP audio device plugged in and Ableton get's annoying. So I set up a routing in Element from BlackHole 8 track to mix down to stereo and my usual stereo output without having to remap my channels in Ableton. Just switch output devices.

[1] https://kushview.net/element/

[2] https://www.minidsp.com/products/usb-audio-interface
Changing and refining Clojure code is a remarkably pleasant experience. There's very little state, so you can usually just grab what sexp you need and extract it.
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> state and local governments and businesses open to the public

Not all businesses are covered under this law, so it doesn't really make sense that an online equivalent would cover all websites. Not to mention private property.

(Quick edit, rewrote to make the meaning I intended clearer)
Ask HN: Would you like top companies job postings list?
I built a small crawler to collect all job positngs from the top 500 companies for persoanl purpose.

No website or anything like that ATM but if there is enough interest i will put out a simple job posting webpage.
This is not realistic. You’re asking new users to go out on a limb to even figure out if they can work with your stuff. the casual “hey send an email to legal” suggestion just cost your potential collaborators weeks of time and thousands of dollars before they can even evaluate the product itself
I've not yet been unable to find something without corn syrup (I don't feel that "high fructose" or not changes how much of a filler it is), but it can be a pain in the ass to read the ingredients on everything on the shelf.

If I were FDA dictator for a day, I'd requite a corn logo on anything with corn syrup, and crossed corn for anything with HFCS.

Now calorie inflation can be done with sugar, too - the real deal is to have things that aren't "diabetes inducing sweet".
I come from a background of high-trust societies where regulation serves the public good; whereas distrust of "big government" hurts everyone. To quote Francis Fukuyama: "Widespread distrust in a society, in other words, imposes a kind of tax on all forms of economic activity, a tax that high-trust societies do not have to pay.".
If you have a USDA zone map, make sure you're using the 2023 version. They hadn't updated the map in... ever, I think?
> Neither clang nor g++ does so, even with -Wall. I just checked. How could they?

Just by having built-in knowledge of standard library types such as std::vector, the same way the compiler has built-in knowledge of some library functions such as C's printf().

I wouldn't expect such policing to be perfect, but the compiler could at least catch simple cases where reference/iterator use follows an invalidating operation in the same function.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not defending C++. It's a beast of a language, and takes a lot of experience and self-discipline to use without creating bugs that are hard to find.
It doesn't need to be denser than the water because the incoming air is always above the water.

Imagine an cavern shaped like the great pyramid of Giza, full of water. They dig two pipes, an air entry pipe to the point at the top, and a water exit pipe to one of the corners at the base. Air pumped in at the top pipe will almost evacuate the cavern, before the water level drops to the point where air could get to the exit pipe.

What this means is that depending on the shape of the cavern, they may not be able to utilise its whole volume. In the worst case, if its roof were entirely flat, they would not be able to use any. They can use the volume of a section, bounded by horizontal planes, from the air entry pipe either down as far as the exit pipe, or (if the roof dips down between the two) down as far as the lowest point on the highest possible path between the two.

That's assuming totally vertical pipes. I know they can curve them a bit, but I don't know if they can curve them enough to enter a cavern from below. If they could, then they can utilise the entire volume, as long as they can identify the lowest and highest points
> Don't the Palestinians also have the right to self determinization in their native land?

Sure, in fact Israel's declaration of independence (which doesn't have an official legal status, but is considered to be the base of a future constitution for Israel) calls for peaceful co-existence with its neighbouring Arab states. It would be an interesting alternate history to observe where Israel was not attacked by all of its neighbouring Arab states, could we really have peaceful co-existence? (I'd like to think the answer is "yes").

Now if you define "Palestinian native land" as the Jewish native land that was colonized by Arabs around 1,400 years ago, then you'll have a problem since that will legitimize Jews to themselves recolonize (and regular colonize) whatever areas they please thus making it their own native land. Of course, reverting the borders to 3,000 years ago is also not practical (especially as that would revert the peace agreement with Jordan which would have to give up a substantial piece of land). That's why IMO something like a two state solution makes the most sense, maybe along the lines of the agreement that was almost signed in 2008?

> My understanding is that anti-Zionism is not opposed to Jews living in Palestine having self determination.

No need to keep to the Roman convention of renaming Israel to Palestine.

> My understanding is that anti-Zionism is not opposed to Jews living in Palestine having self determination. It is opposed to preventing Arabs living in Palestine from having self determination

That just sounds like you are redefining "Anti-Zionism" to mean "Pro-Palestine". Sure, under a different definition it means something else, but how is that useful? If I define "Jews" to mean "Bananas" can I say that I think Jews are disgusting because I actually mean bananas are disgusting?

Anti-Zionism means exactly that, against the right for Jews for self determination in their native land.

> Israel existing as an ethnostate

I think this term is a bit excessively vague. Naturally the Jewish people want to live in their land of the Jewish people in much the same way that the French or Palestinian people want to live in their land of the French or Palestinian people.

A right of return for the Jewish people to the land of self-determination for Jews is only natural, just as much as an emerging state of Palestine should want a right of return for Palestinians into it (it sounds like madness for Palestine to refuse Israeli Arabs from moving to it).

It would also be madness to deny Israel a right to control immigration to it, especially as it is already very densely populated.

That said, I agree that current policies are too extreme, and I'm generally for a much greater separation between state and religion in Israel.
The real takeaway here is that you should read the manuals for all your appliances. I've learned a lot about them.
Insomnia: Sometimes I'm still wired at midnight from the 1 cup from my Kerrig at 8AM.

I get weird swings in my caffeine tolerance, so I only consume caffeine 1-2 times a week, or less.

Caffeine can also cause weird mood swings. Its effects are similar to cocaine, just somewhat muted because the delivery mechanism is slower.
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